Accident
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 29 JUI 1997 |
| Type/Sous-type: | BAC One-Eleven 203AE |
| Compagnie: | ADC Airlines |
| Immatriculation: | 5N-BAA |
| Numéro de série: | 041 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1965 |
| Moteurs: | 2 Rolls Royce 506-14D Spey |
| Equipage: | victimes: 1 / à bord: 6 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 49 |
| Total: | victimes: 1 / à bord: 55 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | Calabar Airport (CBQ) (Nigéria)
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| Phase de vol: | A l'atterrissage (LDG) |
| Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
| Aéroport de départ: | Lagos-Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS/DNMM), Nigéria |
| Calabar Airport (CBQ/DNCA), Nigéria |
The aircraft landed at Calabar runway 03 in heavy rain. The One-Eleven overshot the runway, went through a ditch and continued some 1500m before coming to rest in the bush. One of the engines caught fire (post-impact). There was a 240m cloud base and 2800m visibility in rain.
CAUSE: The hurried straight in approach procedure adopted by the Commander of the aircraft that may have been induced by the inadequate weather information he got about the airfield and the fact that the VOR Navigation an incorrect radial of the runway. Sources:
» Ian Churchill
» Reuters
» The Federal Ministry of Aviation Nigeria
Photos
Florida Express merged into Braniff in 1988. N1547 was briefly stored at Orlando before moving to Nigeria in April 1991.
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Lagos-Murtala Muhammed International Airport et Calabar Airport est de 581 km (363 miles).
La distance entre Lagos-Murtala Muhammed International Airport et Calabar Airport est de 581 km (363 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
